Comment by account42

> And, at the end of the day, if your application is so sensitive about any loss of performance, you can simply profile your code in your lab using frame pointers, then omit them in the version released to your customers.

That is what should be done but TFA is about distros shipping code with frame pointers to end uses because some developers are too lazy to recompile libc when profiling. Somehow shipping different copies of libc, one indended for end users on low-powered devices and one indended for developers is not even considered.